Information about the package, salt, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The salt package is designed for, A parallel remote execution system.
Package Name:
salt
Summary:
A parallel remote execution system
Description:
Salt is a distributed remote execution system used to execute commands and query data. It was developed in order to bring the best solutions found in the world of remote execution together and make them better, faster and more malleable. Salt accomplishes this via its ability to handle larger loads of information, and not just dozens, but hundreds or even thousands of individual servers, handle them quickly and through a simple and manageable interface.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2015.5.10
Release:
2.el6
Size:
4.2 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the salt package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install salt
This command will install salt on the server.
yum remove salt
This command will un-install salt on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove salt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove salt
This command will un-install salt on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove salt when using the -y flag.
yum update salt
This command will update salt to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove salt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update salt
This command will update salt to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove salt when using the -y flag.
yum info salt
This command will show you core information about the salt package.
yum deplist salt
This command will show you the dependencies for salt. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update salt
This command will check if there is an update waiting on salt. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.